If I had to bet on a technologically advanced eugenics practicisng civilization descended from Mormons or one descended from modern New Englanders, I would bet on the former.
I think in the long term “farmer” values win in a fair competition because they scale far better. I’m ok with shifting rich human settings towards farmer quite a lot, indeed I’d prefer it at this point because of the great benefit it would bring as well as pushing the smart fraction opinions closer to my own values. But pushing it too far would pretty soon lead us out of recognizably human ranges. Not cool.
Currently I think we are at risk of in the long term pushing in the forager direction out of recognizably human ranges or at least beyond the threshold where we see non-trivial increases in existential risk because of it. Not cool.
Which is why I currently like going “Yay farmer values!”.
If I had to bet on a technologically advanced eugenics practicisng civilization descended from Mormons or one descended from modern New Englanders, I would bet on the former.
I think in the long term “farmer” values win in a fair competition because they scale far better. I’m ok with shifting rich human settings towards farmer quite a lot, indeed I’d prefer it at this point because of the great benefit it would bring as well as pushing the smart fraction opinions closer to my own values. But pushing it too far would pretty soon lead us out of recognizably human ranges. Not cool.
Currently I think we are at risk of in the long term pushing in the forager direction out of recognizably human ranges or at least beyond the threshold where we see non-trivial increases in existential risk because of it. Not cool.
Which is why I currently like going “Yay farmer values!”.